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🎄 A Festive Message Nestlé Can’t Ignore 🎄 Last week we delivered a special early Christmas gift to Nestlé’s new CEO, Laurent Freixe, at their UK headquarters—a little light reading to guide his leadership journey: 📚 The New Merchants of Doubt – uncovering how Big Meat & Dairy, including Nestlé, delay climate action. 🗎 Net-Zero Integrity - A report revealing Nestlé’s methane blindspot and why bold action is overdue. Nestlé’s climate impact is staggering: its emissions in 2022 were nearly three times those of its home nation Switzerland, with 96.4% coming from its supply chain—primarily dairy and livestock. Methane emissions from industrial farming drive the climate crisis, and ignoring this issue is no longer an option. If Nestlé wants to be a sustainable leader, it must tackle its methane pollution and take accountability for its supply chain. 📣 Action on methane can’t wait, and neither can the planet. That’s why we’ve partnered with Mighty Earth to demand real action. Sign the petition today and join us in calling on Nestlé to cut methane emissions and lead the change we urgently need: https://lnkd.in/gcEMF-af #ClimateChange #sustainability #food

📢 In a hard-hitting new piece for Context Newsroom, our senior campaigners Alma Castrejon-Davila and Caitlin Smith delve into the alarming impact of meat and dairy's methane emissions. Here’s why this needs to be on the agenda for #COP30: 🐄 Meat and dairy = over 30% of global methane emissions 🚨 Tackling methane could cut warming by 0.3°C by 2040—a game-changer in the race to limit global temperature rise ❓ Yet, methane emissions from agriculture remain largely overlooked by government polices We'll continue working in 2025 to make sure that methane emissions from agriculture must be brought front and centre at next year's COP talks. Read the full piece to discover why reducing methane is one of the fastest ways to cool the planet: https://lnkd.in/gpkinyS5 #MethaneMatters #climate

🎄Big Meat & Dairy: 2024’s Naughty List 🎄 From blocking greener choices to dodgy claims, here’s how Big Meat & Dairy failed our planet this year: ❄️ JBS emits more greenhouse gases than the UAE, claiming it’ll be “net zero” by 2040 ❄️ Dairy UK, a dairy industry group that includes companies like Arla Foods UK, backed a court challenge to stop plant-based brands from using terms like “milk" ❄️ Nestlé's methane emissions from livestock still dominate its supply chain despite bold sustainability claims ❄️ Tyson Foods is being sued for hyping “climate-smart” beef without proof. In 2025 it’s time to hold these giants accountable. #climate #environment #sustainability

🎄Big Meat & Dairy: 2024’s Naughty List 🎄 From blocking greener choices to dodgy claims, here’s how Big Meat & Dairy failed our planet this year: ❄️ JBS emits more greenhouse gases than the UAE, claiming it’ll be “net zero” by 2040 ❄️ Dairy UK, a dairy industry group that includes companies like Arla Foods UK, backed a court challenge to stop plant-based brands from using terms like “milk" ❄️ Nestlé's methane emissions from livestock still dominate its supply chain despite bold sustainability claims ❄️ Tyson Foods is being sued for hyping “climate-smart” beef without proof. In 2025 it’s time to hold these giants accountable. #climate #environment #sustainability

The holidays are here, and with them comes mountains of festive cheer—and unfortunately, an equally large mountain of wasted food. Did you know that a third of all food produced globally goes to waste each year? That’s 1.3 billion tonnes, contributing to 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But here’s the thing: it’s not just about what’s on our plates. As Anna Sacks (AKA The Trashwalker) shows in this clip from Netflix’s Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, corporations play a huge role in driving this waste. Overproduction, misleading marketing, and inefficiencies in the food system mean they profit while perfectly good food ends up in the bin—and consumers take the blame. This holiday season, let’s rethink waste. Share this video and start a conversation about the changes we really need—because addressing the food waste crisis starts with holding corporations accountable. #food #waste #sustainability

💥 Breaking: Over 100 major fashion brands, like Inditex and lululemon revealed to be using petrochemicals obtained through fracking in the Permian basin in Texas, US, to make their products. Stand.earth Research Group’s new research and visualizer shows the fashion industry is fuelling Big Oil’s appetite for fracking. Here are the key findings from the research: ➡️ 57/100 companies have policies to phase out or reduce the use of virgin polyester but continue to rely on fracked oil and gas in the Permian Basin in Texas to source their fabrics. ➡️ Most companies with plans to scale up their use of recycled materials rely on non-textile streams, primarily polyester from plastic bottles (rPET). ➡️ Last year, more than two-thirds of garments were made of synthetic (i.e., petrochemical-derived) fibers, which is expected to grow to 73% by 2030. ➡️ Over 1.7 million fracking wells have been drilled, which pollute critical water sources, contribute to the climate crisis, and risk the health of people. So how do we tackle these issues? ➕New legislations that comprehensively address the lifecycle impacts of synthetic materials. ➕Require the reporting of supply chain data to Tier 4 level, including for the feedstocks of synthetic fibres, in order to provide full accountability. ➕To curb the fast-fashion model and stop the reliance on fossil fuel-derived fibres, policymakers should introduce a tax on virgin plastic materials. Check out the visualizer to see which brands are complicit at https://lnkd.in/eBNxh9ys Fracked Fashion: How the Fashion Industry is fuelling Big Oil’s appetite for Fracking is released in collaboration with Changing Markets Foundation.

Together with the #MethaneMatters Coalition, we are standing alongside 30+ environmental organisations calling for the #EU to step up its efforts to reduce methane emissions! We've signed an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen highlighting the urgent need for decisive action on methane. This potent greenhouse gas is a major contributor to global heating, and we need to see ambitious targets and concrete measures to reduce its impact. The letter calls on the EU to: - Prioritise methane mitigation: Integrate methane reduction strategies across all sectors, including energy, #agriculture, and waste. - Lead by example: Implement strong domestic policies and regulations to reduce methane emissions within the EU. - Mobilise public finance: Support countries that receive overseas development assistance to reduce their methane emissions. Read the full letter here: https://lnkd.in/gxmiXGYy European Environmental Bureau - Zero Waste Europe - Environmental Investigation Agency - Deutsche Umwelthilfe

🌍⚠️ GOVERNMENTS MUST NOT ADOPT METHANE REPORTING TOOL THAT ENABLES GREENWASHING, SAY CLIMATE EXPERTS A day after a New Zealand government panel paved the way for the country to weaken its livestock methane reduction efforts, climate experts from across the world have implored policymakers not to adopt this controversial approach. The approach concerns the use of GWP*, a metric for reporting the global warming potential of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s an approach being pushed by livestock producers under terms like “no added warming”, “climate neutrality” and “temperature neutrality”. Currently, governments and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) use GWP20 and GWP100 to measure the warming potential of total greenhouse gas emissions over a period of 20 and 100 years, respectively. GWP*, on the other hand, focuses on changes in the rate of emissions between two points in time (usually over a decadal timescale), rather than the absolute level of emissions. The letter – which was co-signed by 64 organisations, including Feedback Global, Changing Markets Foundation, Greenpeace, and Mighty Earth, among others – says this could “seriously undermine international efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement target of 1.5°C”, reward big polluters, and unfairly penalise low-income countries in the Global South. “The meat and dairy industry’s latest trick is to claim their production system is ‘not adding warming’, and with just small reductions, they can claim ‘neutrality’,” notes Alma Castrejon-Davila, a senior campaigner at Changing Markets Foundation. “These claims are deceptive and can have severe implications towards countries with historically low emissions as well as the climate targets under the Paris Agreement.” Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dJeqYVx2 #GreenQueen #climateaction #climatechange #emissions #policy #sustainability #climatechange

We've joined forces with 20+ organisations to call on #EU leaders Teresa Ribera, Wopke Hoekstra and Christophe Hansen to prioritise #climate action in #agriculture!  🚜🌽 We're urging them to: - Set ambitious targets for reducing emissions from farming, in line with the Paris Agreement. - Move away from industrial animal farming, which harms our environment, communities, and health. - Support farmers in transitioning to more sustainable practices with accessible repurposed funding. The time for change is now! Read the full open letter here: https://lnkd.in/gzaz3vwf European Environmental Bureau

We're proud to join over 60 civil society organisations in condemning attempts to weaken national methane targets. The "no additional warming" approach (or GWP*) is a dangerous distraction that lets big polluters off the hook. We've been exposing this industry tactic for the past year. Our reports, "Seeing Stars" and "The New Merchants of Doubt", reveal how GWP* downplays the impact of methane emissions from livestock. With countries like New Zealand considering adopting GWP*, (where a significant share of emissions come from agriculture), it's more important than ever to hold governments accountable for setting ambitious methane reduction targets. The world needs real action on climate change, not industry-led distractions. Read our reports to learn more: Seeing Stars: https://lnkd.in/gXHUSs9X The New Merchants of Doubt: https://lnkd.in/e7wiGt_Y #climate #pollution #sustainability